Dutch doomsters DEINONYCHUS are currently working on their seventh full-length album with Juergen Bartsch from the German band BETHLEHEM on bass and William Sarginson (ex-THE BLOOD DIVINE) from the U.K. on drums. Tentatively titled "Morphium Replacement", the follow-up to 2004's "Insomnia" will be recorded and released by late 2006 via Italy's My Kingdom Music. For ...
Switzerland's SAMAEL will spend the next few months writing material for the follow-up to last year's "Reign of Light" album. The group's as-yet-untitled new CD is not expected to surface until late 2006 at the earliest. In other news, SAMAEL's Vorph and Makro have secured an endorsement deal with ESP Guitars. SAMAEL's last release was ...
ANGEL BLAKE, the new Swedish band featuring former THE CROWN guitarist Marko Tervonen and former TRANSPORT LEAGUE frontman Tony Jelencovich, have launched a studio diary at www.angelblake.com to follow the progress of the recording sessions for the group's debut album. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Self-Terminate" (download mp3 ...
BOLT THROWER singer Karl Willetts has posted the sixth installment of the group's studio report at their official web site. Check it out at BoltThrower.com. An excerpt from his report follows: "My introduction to the new songs came in the form of some demos Baz recorded at home earlier in the year, I ...
GOD AMONG INSECTS, the Swedish "old-school" death metal band featuring vocalist Emperor Magus Caligula (DARK FUNERAL), guitarist Lord K (a.k.a. Kenth Philipson) (THE PROJECT HATE), bassist Tomas Elofsson (SANCTIFICATION) and drummer Tobias Gustafsson (VOMITORY), have posted the following message on their official web site: "The new album is completed. . . We will reveal track ...
East Coast hard rockers FRANKENSTEIN 3000 will release their covers CD, "America's Hit Remakers", on October 4. Starting September 6, it will be available on a limited basis via the Main Man Records web site and exclusively at Vintage Vinyl in Fords, NJ. The 17-song set includes the band's version of THE NEW ...
Reunited San Francisco Bay Area thrashers HEATHEN have made their entire new demo available for free download at this location. The tracks featured on the demo are "Empty Nothingness", "Dying Season" and "Arrows of Agony". Despite the fact that HEATHEN guitarist Lee Altus was recently named an official member of EXODUS (replacing Rick ...
Australia's Inside_Out66 recently conducted an interview with BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION/ex-L.A. GUNS guitarist Tracii Guns. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Inside_Out666: When you prepare to do a new album such as "Runaway Brides", what comes first — the lyrics or the music? Tracii Guns: "Music always comes first in everything that I've ...
SOULFLY fan site SoulflyWeb.com recently conducted an interview with SOULFLY bassist Bobby Burns. An excerpt from the chat follows: SoulflyWeb.com: When you began to record "Dark Ages", what was the band's goal and your own personal goal? Bobby: "Well, when we went in to record this record, we pretty much started everything as ...
OZZY OSBOURNE will be issuing a separate version of Disc 4 ("Under Covers") of his recently issued box set, "Prince of Darkness", on November 1, 2005 via Sony. The DualDisc release will contain nine tracks that were previously released on the "Prince" box set, plus four brand new cover tunes. The first side of every ...
